We get an extra day in NY state. Columbus is Italian, like our governor. It gives me an extra day to catch up. You need more Italians in Wisconsin! Sometimes it seems like a flat earth society over there.

The Solyndra thing reminds me of a tale I was told in the 60's about a sharp operator who seeded an area in the New Mexico high desert with wheat (none grew, of course), and then collected farm sunsidy for not doing that agin.

Congrats to Prof. Thomas Sargent on winning the Nobel for Economics. Perhaps the Nobel committee is trying to rehab the bad name it's given itself in other disciplines?

Sargent quotes:*“The calculations that I have seen supporting the stimulus package are back-of-the-envelope ones that ignore what we have learned in the last 60 years of macroeconomic research.” *"Europe’s generous unemployment compensation system has made an important contribution to sustained high European unemployment." "If, in the United States, we create a system where unemployment and disability benefits are permanently extended in their generosity and their duration, we will inadvertently put ourselves into the situation that much of Europe has suffered for three decades."*“What induced one major Western country after another to run a more-or-less balanced budget in the 19th century and early 20th century before World War I was their decision to adhere to the gold standard.”*"Nothing can be more surely established by a larger experience than that a Government which interferes with any trade injures that trade. "

Someone blocked the John Wayne short page...maybe it is for the best. Those shorts were unholy and all Ann would have to do in the future when shorts came up is point to that picture and argument over! Althouse wins!

Top story on Drudge right now is how Al Qaeda is questioning the legality of the killing of Al-Awlaki and Samir Khan (the other "American" guy who ate the drone sandwich). I just laughed and said, "Hey, Al Qaeda! See my finger?!"

Other stories about Obama the Loner were also interesting. He's going all Milhous-y on us.

Yeah, it took me a while to start taking him seriously, but now I'm one of the faithful. It bothered me that he seemed to join in on the N_____head controversy, but if you listen to what he said, he was criticizing the word, not Perry. Like I said at HotAir, BS Math, MS CompSci and his business record finally convinced me.

Just got the next Qtr funds data. We have exceeded the goal by two-fold. To put it in another perspective. For every dollar raised by all 9 GOP candidates, the best POTUS in the history gets $100. That is awesome. We are going to bury the GOP. We have so many new donors that it is incredible. It is like 2008 revisited, only ten times better. GOP: Watch out.

I saw the recent Stallone film, The Expendables. The movie featured a number of the older action stars doing their action star thing. There were lots of explosions and guys saying manly things before they beat each other to death. You got your money's worth I suppose, but even for a Stallone film it was very formulaic and manipulative. I wish to draw particular attention to the water boarding scene. Since when did water boarding become the preferred method of torture for evil masterminds. Saddam had a harness rigged to drop his victims in vats of acid. Al Queada used to use power drills on their victims. They started on the knees and worked their way up. Those methodd are far more diabolical and cinematic than waterboarding. Nevertheless, this movie used waterboarding. I think this is meant as a subliminal way of showing us how evil Bush/Cheney really are--although I'm not discounting the possiblity that Stallone is simply stupid. Many of you are probably saying that for exploitation purposes, waterboarding offers an excellent opportunity to indulge in wet t-shirt action. No such luck. If the young woman who was being waterboarded had nipples, there were not in evidence that scene.....I know that there is a huge overlap of Stallone fans and Althouse followers so I just want to warn them away from this film.

Doesn't it strike you as possibly the case that the twentieth century, where the intellectual and romantic odysseys usually begin with yourself and end with yourself, becomes the age therefore of solipsism?

- William F. Buckley Jr. "THE LEXICON: a cornucopia of wonderful words for the inquisitive word lover"

wv gonock

Gonock on your neighbors door and tell him you found the winning playbooks and they all have WFB on the cover.

To be sure, that fuckwit Steyn could write an "America Upward" or "America Determined" or "America Steadfast" or "America Forward*" or "America Challenged and Determined" or "American Twain" or "Sinatra's America: WE AIN'T LOSIN SHIT"or something akin and redeem himself.

*MessssNBseeee and UW both might be worthy of shaedenfreude (spelling is wrong dont' care bout that nor grammar) but Steyn is of a rare talent to paradigm shift them.

Just got the next Qtr funds data. We have exceeded the goal by two-fold. To put it in another perspective. For every dollar raised by all 9 GOP candidates, the best POTUS in the history gets $100. That is awesome. We are going to bury the GOP. We have so many new donors that it is incredible. It is like 2008 revisited, only ten times better. GOP: Watch out.

Been waiting for this all day. The only thing to watch out for is AP's head exploding like one of those old "Mission: Impossible" tapes.

I saw the recent Stallone film, The Expendables. The movie featured a number of the older action stars doing their action star thing.

... You got your money's worth I suppose, but even for a Stallone film it was very formulaic and manipulative.

...

Since when did water boarding become the preferred method of torture for evil masterminds. Saddam had a harness rigged to drop his victims in vats of acid.

.....

I know that there is a huge overlap of Stallone fans and Althouse followers so I just want to warn them away from this film.

Lighten up, it's a movie. Most people watch them to be entertained, only a few expect to be (ahem...) enlightened.

Never heard about the acid, although I read Saddam got the idea for feeding people he didn't like into an industrial shredder from "License To Kill". So I guess life imitated art.

Or something.

In any case, having sat through the Left-wing drivel that is the plot of "RED", I can say it does have its moments and, if you can turn off your brain to the usual Hollyweird paranoia about "war crimes" and secret organizations, Bruce Willis, John Malkovitch, Morgan Freeman (don't worry, he isn't in it that much), and Helen Mirren (looking smashing, may I say) make a pretty good B+ Team.